I don't participate in the fandom but I liked the animated series and I liked the films and your review kept making me laugh.
Nightcrawler was pretty good,
Would've liked to have seen MUCH MORE of him. Also, Hank. Way way way more Hank. I think Kelsey Grammer did a fantastic job giving movie-Hank wisdom and charisma and that not-quite-in-sync sense of humor. Both of those characters were criminally underused. As you say, when you have 60, 78, 94 main characters....
Costumes-- yes! Also, that you say "dork ass" and "fucktard" is, for me, DIFFERENT. Also, FUNNY.
Can movie-Jean possibly suck any worse?
Sometimes it seems like she asked herself that question before each movie and vowed the answer would be yes!
I can remember sitting in the theater for X3 and watching the scene where she comes out of the lake thinking, "WTF kinda Clairol commercial is this?!"
Can I simultaneously like movie-Rogue and wish that movie-Rogue had been animated-series-Rogue?
Yes. I'm right there with you. She's great, but she's exactly right. There's something missing and its hard to articulate and some of it's a lack of Gambit, and some of it is having no connection to Mystique, but some of it's just ineffable.
No Gambit!! Wtf?? No Gambit! ...Did they hate Cajuns?
Dixiephobia: lame-ifying superhero franchise movies since 2000. Fingers crossed for #4 yeah?
I would’ve liked Jubilee to have a line or two, though I realize I may be alone in that opinion.
I would have, too.
Storm. She’s so much better than movie-Jean and movie-Rogue that she kinda seems to be the pick of the lot in terms of movie-X-women. And at least they showcased her powers well in X3. But they still could’ve done a lot more with her...
Absolutely! I kept waiting for her to take charge and things just kept getting skewed to Wolverine. I can understand how he's a big deal, interesting guy whatever, and they had to hang a plot of him, but Storm's powers and character is massively more interesting. Wolverine's story seems passive: they did this to me, I can't remember, all this stuff comes at me from outside. Whereas Storm has a complex backstory with her making choices and taking action and dealing with things. She's supposed to be second in command (I have a thing for hierarchies) and very much experience in how things work. It seems like the best of her character, at least in the first two movies, got split up between Cyclops, Jean, and Wolverine. Also, liked her first movie hairstyle way better than her third movie hairstyle.
Lady Deathstrike was so cool in X2. And it so sucked that she gets killed.
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Date: 2008-05-08 01:26 am (UTC)Nightcrawler was pretty good,
Would've liked to have seen MUCH MORE of him. Also, Hank. Way way way more Hank. I think Kelsey Grammer did a fantastic job giving movie-Hank wisdom and charisma and that not-quite-in-sync sense of humor. Both of those characters were criminally underused. As you say, when you have 60, 78, 94 main characters....
Costumes-- yes! Also, that you say "dork ass" and "fucktard" is, for me, DIFFERENT. Also, FUNNY.
Can movie-Jean possibly suck any worse?
Sometimes it seems like she asked herself that question before each movie and vowed the answer would be yes!
I can remember sitting in the theater for X3 and watching the scene where she comes out of the lake thinking, "WTF kinda Clairol commercial is this?!"
Can I simultaneously like movie-Rogue and wish that movie-Rogue had been animated-series-Rogue?
Yes. I'm right there with you. She's great, but she's exactly right. There's something missing and its hard to articulate and some of it's a lack of Gambit, and some of it is having no connection to Mystique, but some of it's just ineffable.
No Gambit!! Wtf?? No Gambit! ...Did they hate Cajuns?
Dixiephobia: lame-ifying superhero franchise movies since 2000. Fingers crossed for #4 yeah?
I would’ve liked Jubilee to have a line or two, though I realize I may be alone in that opinion.
I would have, too.
Storm. She’s so much better than movie-Jean and movie-Rogue that she kinda seems to be the pick of the lot in terms of movie-X-women. And at least they showcased her powers well in X3. But they still could’ve done a lot more with her...
Absolutely! I kept waiting for her to take charge and things just kept getting skewed to Wolverine. I can understand how he's a big deal, interesting guy whatever, and they had to hang a plot of him, but Storm's powers and character is massively more interesting. Wolverine's story seems passive: they did this to me, I can't remember, all this stuff comes at me from outside. Whereas Storm has a complex backstory with her making choices and taking action and dealing with things. She's supposed to be second in command (I have a thing for hierarchies) and very much experience in how things work. It seems like the best of her character, at least in the first two movies, got split up between Cyclops, Jean, and Wolverine. Also, liked her first movie hairstyle way better than her third movie hairstyle.
Lady Deathstrike was so cool in X2. And it so sucked that she gets killed.
Yes.
I'm looking forward to the fourth film!